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• past participle of clothe.

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  clad

  verb

  a simple past tense and past participle of clothe.
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  clad-

  variant of clado- before a vowel.

clad

¹ American  

[klad] / klæd /

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of clothe.

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adjective

1. dressed.

   ill-clad vagrants.

2. covered.

   vine-clad cottages.

clad ² American  

[klad] / klæd /

verb (used with object)

clad, cladding

1. to bond a metal to (another metal), especially to provide with a protective coat.

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clad- ³ American  

1. variant of clado- before a vowel.

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clad ¹ British  

/ klæd /

verb

1. a past participle of clothe

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clad ² British  

/ klæd /

verb

1. (tr) to bond a metal to (another metal), esp to form a protective coating

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Etymology

Origin of clad¹

before 950; Middle English cladd ( e ), Old English clāthod ( e ) clothed. See clothe, -ed ²

Origin of clad²

First recorded in 1935–40; special use of clad ¹

Explanation

Clad means "dressed or covered." Most kids go to school clad in jeans and t-shirts, but students in the Shakespeare club might show up clad in velvet gowns or leather breeches. As a verb, clad is the past tense and past particle of “clothe,” as in “the leprechaun clad himself in green.” It’s also an adjective that describes being covered or clothed, so a building can be clad in brick, while a person can be clad in head-to-toe sequins. It’s an old-fashioned word, kind of like “shod,” which means “wearing footwear.”

Example Sentences

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The homes, mostly clad in wooden exteriors, none more than two stories high, are scattered along 10 miles of coastline about 100 miles north of San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

They were clad in the university’s signature burnt orange.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Had they been plastered, clad in ceramic, or built in raw concrete, they would have lent tangible weight and heft to the vaults.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

John Overdeck, clad in a navy-blue suit, light blue shirt and no tie, has been questioned on the witness stand this week by his estranged wife’s attorney.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

There were balconies on all four sides, and everywhere were mannequins clad in outlandish garbs—feather suits, and dresses made of smoke and fog and glass.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

The blaze came just a day after residents got approval to have all the flammable cladding on the building removed.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The rules state cladding can remain in place on blocks if the risk is deemed to be "tolerable".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

When Natasha Parcell first got her foot on the property ladder little did she expect to be one of the latest victims of the cladding crisis.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

As of July 2026, there are 4,697 residential buildings 11m and over in height being monitored due to unsafe cladding, external, but work still isn't complete on 61% of them.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

The uranium pellets that form nuclear fuel rods are held together by a thin coating, called cladding, of the metal zirconium.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland